From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Durrant <mdurrant@ArcturusNetworks.com>,
Matthew Weber <matthew.weber@collins.com>,
buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/gcc: remove gcc 8.x
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 22:22:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210721222228.39f7bae3@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210627140049.159432-1-romain.naour@gmail.com>
On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 16:00:49 +0200
Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com> wrote:
> gcc 11.1 is around, gcc 10.2 is the default version, so drop
> 8.4 in order to reduce the gcc choice.
>
> For PowerPC SPE, introduce BR2_GCC_VERSION_POWERPC_SPE
> to avoid removing defconfigs arcturus_ucp1020_defconfig,
> freescale_p1025twr_defconfig and qemu_ppc_mpc8544ds_defconfig
> that are still used by some users [1].
> BR2_GCC_VERSION_POWERPC_SPE use the same gcc version (8.4), no
> change expected.
>
> [1] 96e80ad214ced86c802d561946fa7da88c1595eb
>
> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
> Cc: Oleksandr Zhadan <oleks@arcturusnetworks.com>
> Cc: Michael Durrant <mdurrant@ArcturusNetworks.com>
> Cc: Matthew Weber <matthew.weber@collins.com>
> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
> ---
> Config.in.legacy | 9 +++++++++
> package/gcc/Config.in.host | 13 +++++++------
> 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
I've applied to master, but modified the commit title to say that we
don't remove gcc 8.x, but restrict it to PowerPC SPE, which really is
what your patch is doing.
We will clearly have an issue with this PowerPC SPE support: we won't
be able to keep gcc 8.x around forever.
Thomas
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